Syslog Problems on Red Hat Enterprise 4 (RHEL4)

I've seen endless posts about this problem, but haven't found any
clear solution to it.

I keep getting the following syslog messages over and over again in
/var/log/messages, and nothing appears to stop it.  I've tried setting
the following in /etc/ssh/sshd_config/

SyslogFacility AUTH
LogLevel QUIET

In /etc/init.d/sshd, I even changed the sshd invocation to:

SSHD=/usr/sbin/sshd
OPTIONS=-q
.....
initlog -q -c "$SSHD $OPTIONS" && success || failure

Alas, the messages still appear.

Here are the messages that appear when I'm logged in:

May 28 21:56:24 hudge sshd(pam_unix)[22685]: session opened for user
jperrie by (uid=0)
May 28 21:56:24 hudge sshd(pam_unix)[22685]: session closed for user jperrie
May 28 21:56:34 hudge sshd(pam_unix)[22705]: session opened for user
jperrie by (uid=0)
May 28 21:56:34 hudge sshd(pam_unix)[22705]: session closed for user jperrie
May 28 21:56:44 hudge sshd(pam_unix)[22729]: session opened for user
jperrie by (uid=0)
May 28 21:56:45 hudge sshd(pam_unix)[22729]: session closed for user jperrie
May 28 21:56:54 hudge sshd(pam_unix)[22752]: session opened for user
jperrie by (uid=0)
May 28 21:56:54 hudge sshd(pam_unix)[22752]: session closed for user jperrie
May 28 21:57:04 hudge sshd(pam_unix)[22777]: session opened for user
jperrie by (uid=0)
May 28 21:57:04 hudge sshd(pam_unix)[22777]: session closed for user jperrie

This appears over and over again, and appears to recycle about every
10-seconds.

Any help would be appreciated,

Tony